ISLAMABAD – Pakistan on Friday shut down its Consulate General in JalalabadCity in Nangarhar province over serious security concerns.
Decision was made in recation to protest local officials’ intervention inactivities of the diplomatic office.
According to Dunya News sources, the Pakistani embassy in Kabul said thatthe decision has been taken in reaction to provincial governor HayatullahHayat’s intervention in activities of the consulate.
“The Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul deeply regrets undue intervention ofGovernor Hayatullah Hayat in the functioning of the Consulate General ofthe Islamic Republic of Pakistan in Jalalabad is complete violation of theVienna Convention of the Consular Relations 1963.”
The embassy said that the Consulate General will remain closed until thesecurity arrangements are completed to the satisfaction of the embassy.
The embassy said it has requested the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs to“kindly refrain the governor from interfering in the functioning of theConsulate General and to ensure restoration of security of the consulateoffice as it existed on August 28, 2018.”